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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16

ducive of crime, the records from Montana
and Idaho for this winter will make a long
chapter, and one to be read with many
bitter pang. Again, the snow has covered
the stock ranges to such depth that stock
has been unable to find feed in sufficient
quantities to sustain life in more than from
twenty-five to fifty per cent of the whole
The consequence is that many of the larger
stockmen of this territory and Idaho are
liable-using a western phrase-to turn
out on foot y this spring. This has raised
counting the time when spring will open up
the roads and bare the ranges, that we may
get little relief.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
The Mormon Question.

1t does not yet appear whether Nor
monism will end under the pressure of
law, or that quiet agency known as
civilization which gradually lifts men
to higher planes of belief and practice.
The problem of dealing in earnest with
people so fanatical in their religious
faith, and so abjectly controlled by
their priests, has proved no holiday
task. 1t remains to be seen what will be
the effect of the new anti-polygamy law,
which the President refused to sign be-
cause he believed that in some particu-
lars it was Objectionable; but its friends
are confident that under its provisions
the power of the Mormon Church can
be effectually broken. The former law
accomplished something, for it disfran-
chised about fifteen thousand practical
polygamists, convicted and punished
scores of polygamists, excluded all who
believed in the practice of polygamy
from juries and drove some of the
leaders from the country, but it failed
to break down the political power of
the church. The new law dissolves
the Mormon corporations, prescribes a
test oath for voters, empowers the
President to appoint local officers, abol-
ishes woman suffrage, defines widows
dover right and disinherits illegitimate
children. 1t also provides for winding
up the affairs of the Mormon Church, as
corporation, and the Mormon Emil
grafton Society. The Mormons pro-
fess to believe that the law will be in
operative, but do not state the grounds
for that opinion. Its effectiveness
will, of course, depend upon the meas
ure of its enforcement Meanwhile
the Mormon missionaries are actively
at work in the West and South, and
succeed in getting many converts.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
Notes and Opinions.

SECRETARY MANNING has retired
from the treasury department.
THE town elections in New Jersey
exhibit decided republican gains.
DEMOCRATS are fearful that West
Virginia is rapidly becoming republic
can state.
THE appropriations actually made
by the forty-ninth congress foot up
$247 100000.
CABOT, Weston, Stockbridge and
Waterford voted to return to the dis
trict system of schools.
WE hope that none of our subscribers
will overlook the publishers announce
ment, :" Advance Payment" at the head
of the first column on the first page.
NEW YORK STATE will pay 81 ,000,-
600 for the support of state prisoners,
and large part of this expense is be-
cause of the "convict labor COMPETE
ton agitation.
SOME of Edward Atkinsons figures
set man thinking. Our national debt
is seventy-three cents per acre; the
debt of the six leading European states
is $1,000 per acre.
OF the legislatures of thirty-eight
states nineteen are republican and
nineteen are democratic. There are
twenty-five democratic governors and
sixteen republican governors.
ABOUT one hundred forty bills grant
ing pensions to individuals, and the bill
granting pensions to INDECENT Union
veterans, after passing both houses,
were vetoed by the President.
THE Manchester Mirror says there
is growing demand for good farms in
New Hampshire. Agriculture is be-
coming popular, and there is less dis
position to migrate to tie West.
THE municipal elections in Maine
were more favorable to the republicans
than last year. The town of Hills
borough, N. H., went republican last
week for the first time in its history
If Mrs. Beecher could see tn,
wretched caricature of herself in Satur
days Free Press she would want to su,
that paper for libel. Mrs. Beecher ha
no wart or other eXcrescence on he
forehead.
IT is now said that the world will no
come TO an end until A. ID. 5000. Thi
leaves us / ,1l3 years in which to stud
the second section of the interstat,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
Free-Trade in England.

The final report of the Royal Com
mission on the Depression of Trade in
Great Britain has been printed. The
majority of the commission cling to the
free-trade idea, but the minority claim
that it makes distinct concession that
free-trade is partial failure. For ex-
ample, the free-traders have persist
emily asserted that "the consumers pay
the duty" but the majority report adj
mits that, Notwithstanding the increase
in the quantity of exports, " there can
be little doubt that the obstruction to
our trade caused the growing strin-
gency of the commercial policy of those
countries, tending to make it far less
profitable" The minority report comes
out boldly for protection, 1t advocates
a countervailing duty of half cent a
pound, or fifty-six cents per hundred
weight, on all foreign refined sugar and
raw beet sugar. 1t furthermore advo-
Gates the imposition of duties equal to
ten or fifteen per cent ad valorem upon
all manufactures imported from foreign
countries. This is not intended as
protection exactly, but to counter
vail the bounty system and tariffs of
other countries. The aim of the mi
nority is not to countervail any natural
and legitimate advantage which foreign
manufacturers may possess, but "sim-
ply to prevent our own industries being
placed at an artificial disadvantage by
interference of either home or foreign
legislation, and to replace them, as
nearly as may be, in the position in
which they would have found them
selves but for such interference" The
minority also propose discriminating
duty on food products imported from
the colonies against those from the
United States, Russia and other grain
producing countries. Captain A. L.
Conger of Ohio, who has been in
England recently, says: "There is
strong sentiment among English manu-
facturers in favor of protective pol
icy. l think from what l saw and
heard that it is safe to predict that
England will adopt such policy, be-
cause otherwise she will be obliged to
reduce the wages of her workers to the
basis of wages in Germany, which
would be disastrous to Great Britain in
the further Impoverished of her la
borers, whose condition is already very
low. The fact cannot be disguised that
free-trade for America means that the
wages here must at once be reduced
and put upon the level of countries
with which we might seek to compete
under free-trade. Under our present
system we are fast building up in every
branch of manufactures by reason of
the improved quality of labor and the
better class of goods which we are
enabled through intelligent workmen
to produce. Our first-class, well-paid
labor can overcome the ill-paid, i'm
poverished and ignorant workmen in
all the markets of the world, and we
have only to maintain our position to
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16

soon assumed the position as one of
the foremost preachers of the time.
He proclaimed at the outset his I'M
flinching principles on the slavery curse,
the temperance question, and all other
matters in which he has since done
yeoman service. He joined the repub-
lican party at the time of its formation
on account of its pronounced attitude
on the slavery question, and was an
enthusiastic supporter of the war for
the preservation of the Union. He
did much to maintain popular conf
dence in the successful issue of the
struggle. In 1868 he visited England
and combated the hostility to the
Union which was too common there
among all classes, and it is universally
acknowledged that his eloquence and
courage did much to turn the scale of
public opinion. In the last presiden-
tial campaign Mr.. Beecher deserted
the republican party, mainly because
he was opposed to its championship of
the policy of protection. In his theo-
logical views he was neither consistent
nor trustworthy, but his pulpit minis
trations were broad and liberal. He
was enthusiastic and impulsive, and
his tendencies to radical thought often
carried him away from well-grounded
convictions, to be tossed about on the
uncertain sea of vague speculation. In
most matters he was law unto him
self. AS an orator his vitality, origin
ality and personal magnetism always
compelled hearing, while his faculty
of expressing his thoughts simply and
directly added great force to his efforts.
His pen was always busy, and his liter
airy work embraced wonderful variety
of subjects. In addition to his editorial
work for the Independent and Christian
Union, he wrote a series of papers of
great interest for the New York Ledger,
published many volumes of sermons, a
series of "Star Papers, Yale Lee
lures on Preaching, 1S72-74," cleo
lures to Young Men," " Morning and
Evening Exercises" Experiences of
Art and Nature" pheasant Talk
About Fruits, Flowers and Farming
Norwood, or Village Life in New
England" "Lecture Room Talks"
"The Overture of Angels" and the
first volume of "The Life of Christ"
AT the time of his death he had nearly
completed the second volume of the
latter work, was writing weekly letters
for syndicate of newspapers, and con-
templated an autobiography. His ca
pacity for work seemed unlimited.
The Tilton episode was an unhappy
one for his fame, and it cannot be de-
MED that it impaired his influence.
Probably the last dozen years of his
life added little to his achievements,
and while his whole life-work was i'm
mediately fruitful in important and far
reaching results, it may, perhaps, be
said in truth that much of his work
contains no force of perpetuation and
its influence has ended with his death.
He will indeed be ever regarded as one
of the most remarkable men of his
time; his faults will be measurably for
gotten, while his services for freedom
and humanity will be long remem-
bered; and his death leaves a vacancy
which no aspirant can hope to fill.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
The Winter i'm Montana.

Mr.. G. f. Fowler writes the WAToHMAN
from Butte City, Montana, as follows;
a." Noticing in the number of February
23d an article under the heading Winter
East and West, in which the winter in
Montana is depicted as one of almost unen-
durable severity, | wish to correct in a
measure the general eastern idea of winter
weather and hardships in the mountains
West. 1t is true that the spirits in our
thermometer often fall from forty TO sixty
degrees below zero, but the air at the height
at which we are is very rareted and the
cold not nearly so intense as at places with
low attitudes, and to persons who have
lived both in the East and in the mountains
of the West the cold of forty degrees below
zero in the latter place does not seem to
penetrate and chill the system as does the
twenty degrees of the former, Our coolest
weather this winter has not been more Sc
we're, nor indeed has it been nearly as severe,
as that of preceding winters; and but for
the snOU we would have passed a mild and
prosperous winter. That has, in the first
place, caused bockades on the different
railroads, thus raising the price of coal and
of hay, making it next to impossible for
many of the mines and mills TO procure coal
and salt. From this cause hundreds-yea,
thousands--of men have been thrown out
of employment and made idlers about the
different camps; and as idleness is con-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
Captain Eads.

Captain James B. Eads, the famous
engineer, died at Nassau, n. p, on
the Sth instant, of pneumonia, at the
age of sixty-seven. In early life he
served as clerk on a river steamboat
on the Mississippi and later in life
entered firm engaged in recovering
sunken property, a business in which
he made so large fortune that in 1857
he could retire. AT the outbreak of the
war he submitted to the government a
plan for the defence of the western
waters and contracted for the construc-
ton of seven iron-clad gunboats for
service on the Mississippi. Many new
features of his own invention were in
trOduced in the construction of the
gunboats. He had since gained great
reputation as civil engineer and as
protector and constructing engineer of
the Illinois & St. Louis bridge. His
greatest prominence was attained by
his connection with the work of OPEN
ing the mouths of the Mississippi to
the heaviest draught ships. Instead of
ship canal he proposed the deepening
of the Southwest Pass by jetties. The
work, under his own designs, was put in
successful operation, he having OBJ
tanned the requisite twenty feet depth
over bar on which was but eight feet.
The last great enterprise to which he
gave his attention was the ship railway
across the isthmus of Tehauntepec
Mexico. He believed this project to
be more feasible than either the Panama
or Nicaragua canal, and his views were
sustained by eminent engineers. The
length of the route is one hundr
thirty-four miles, its highest point
seven hundred thirty-six feet above the
sea level, and its heaviest grade is less
than fifty-three feet per mile. Captain
Eads proposed to construct a many
tracked railroad, with turntables, etc.,
and with dry docks at each end. The
largest ocean steamers, heavily laden,
were to be locked, placed in huge
cradles, mounted on cars, and dragged
overland from sea to sea by the COM
bined force of half dozen giant loco
motives. The entire cost of this stu.
pendous work Captain Eads estimated
at less than $75, 000, 900, and he claimed
that the tonnage that might naturally
be expected to follow this route would
pay handsome profits on that invest
ment. AT the late session of congress
he secured the passage of an act of in
corporation in the senate by large
majority, but it went to the house to-
late to receive consideration. Though
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16

THE oleomargarine bill brought into
the treasury, up to the end of February,
little over 100000. The average
monthly product appears to have settled
down to between two and half and
three million pounds. The manufac-
ture is mainly confined to the states of
Illinois, Indiana and Kansas. Efforts
to carry the factories in New York and
Pennsylvania are hampered by local
laws. The chemical and microscopical
bureau, established in the internal
revenue department to pass upon the
product, is in successful working, but
is greatly cramped by want of room
to equip a suitable laboratory. None
of the decisions have yet been ques-
toned. A good deal of the stuff seized
as oleomargarine is found to consist of
different samples of rancid butter,
mixed and boiled down and temporarily
made marketable by the use of chemi-
calls
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
A Remarkable Career.

For nearly half century Henry
Ward Beecher was before the public as
a man "playng many parts''-preacher,
editor, orator, author, lecturer and
reformer. His earliest address was
given on temperance, at Brattleboro,
when he was in his junior year at Am
herst College. His first sermon was
preached at Northbridge, Mass, where
he taught school in 1881. After preach
ing in several small places in Ohio,
Kentucky and Indiana, he was settled
in indianapolis for eight years, and
came to Brooklyn in 1S47, where he
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16

The trunk-line railway managers, at
their meeting in New York last Fri
day, voted to abolish the issue of
mileage tickets after April mot on
the ground that they conhicted with
the interstate law, but because they
have been an imposition on the rail-
roads in the past" 1t was decided
that the law does not permit the giving
of reduced fares to other persons than
"ministers of religion" Excursion
tickets are defined to mean "a round
trip ticket sold at a reduced rate to a
person who, under conditions, desires
to make journey within given time
to a given point and return.' Free
baggage is to be allowed of one hun
dred and fifty pounds only on each
full first or second-class ticket; seventy
five pounds on each half ticket. All in
excess of these weights must be paid
for extra. Payments of commissions
on tickets to agents, firms, brokers,
scalpers or other persons are to be for
hidden. Nothing definite as TO pas
senger or freight tariffs has yet been
announced, but so far as the railroads
have gone it does not look as though
the interstate commerce law is to be a
great boon to the interests of the public.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16

THE terrible accident on the Ded-
ham branch of the Boston & Provi-
dence railroad, Monday morning, adds
another to the long record of disasters
that has made the season memorable
one. The train was made up of nine cars,
which were crowded with passengers.
The locomotive and two forward cars
crossed the bridge in safety; the 9TH
ers went down in a confused wreck to
the street below. Between thirty and
forty persons were killed, several are
fatally hurt and one hundred others
are more or less injured. The cause of
the accident is not definitely known.
The various theories ascribe it to a
broken girder, defective beam-hangers,
or the breaking of bolt in the center
post of the bridge. The road has here
tofore been exempt from accidents of
much magnitude.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16

the death of Captain Eads probably
gives the project temporary setback,
it is believed that the scheme will be
ultimately carried out by his associates,
whose faith in its practicability has
never wavered
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16

On THE Boston & PROVIDENCE ROAD
SIX CARS FALL THRoUGH A STREET
BRIDGE OVER THIRTY PERSONS KILLED
AND A LARGE NUMBER INJURED
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16

sense would be strong where Cleveland
is weak"
ONE effect of the interstate railway
bill promises to be the establishment of
greater harmony of action between
the managers of the various railway
companies of this country than has
hitherto existed. 1t used to be the
commonly received opinion that COM
petition was the life of trade in railroad
matters, as well as in other business
affairs; but the effect, if not the intent,
of the interstate railway bill is to largely
prevent competition in matters of trans
portation-not only by directly regu-
lating rates, but by indirectly forcing rail
way managers to have frequent consul
tations and to agree upon some uniform
basis of action.-BOSton Herald.
THROUGHOUT France and Italy dis
covered that the laboring men lived
principally on bread. They have no
meat, no butter, no coffee or tea. A
little watered wine is their only bever-
age. That is what American working
men would come to under free-trade.
They have literally no chance of adj
vancement. Here they have good living
and good wages, free schools and oppor'
tunities to rise in the world. Over
there il is mere struggle for life.
Such advantages as ours it would be fool
ish and suicidal for Americans to throw
away. Instead of looking back to fine
precedents we should make precedents
for the future. In other words, while
profting by the experience of the past
we should lead and not follow.-Captai,
A. L. Conger.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-02-12
Come and See Us, Tonight,

Tonight, lyons place In the Leigh
ton q Jordan block, Main street. will
be formally opened to the public. For
some weeks past the carpenter, painter
and paper hanger have been busily
engaged In fitting up this noted place
Of resort, and the finishing touches
having been given the public are in
vited to call tonight and see how they
like 1t. In the front Office the gentle
manly proprietor, Mr.. A. s. lyon, will
be found ready to welcome old friends
and greet new. Passing further on,
aud behind an elegant plate glass
screen, will be found the prescription
case, under charge Of that distin-
guished chemist, Prof. VIM. Green,
familiarity known ~ "Slick Billy"
whose cunning hands car produce a
greater variety of acceptable doses
than any other artist in his line. At
the end OF this department Is u parti.
ton cutting Off a large and hand
somely furnished wine room, where
those whose corns hurt them
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-02-12
Plate Glass Insurance.

The idea Of insuring plate glass
fronts is not entirely new, but we be-
lieve, beyond the transportation aud
fire risks carried on this fragile and
costly article, there is no other protec-
ton maintained by our citizens. In
surance against the hundred and one
accidents liable to occur at any hour
of the day or night which render I'M
slightly or utterly destroy the hand
some sheets of glass In show windows,
is now practicable, Mr.. VIM. Cour,e.
nay having accepted the agency of the
Lloyds Plate Glass Insurance Com
pany, which insures against any acct
dental breakage fire excepted.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-02-12
The BEGINNING Of the End.

The beginning Of disesss IL . slight debility or
disorder Of some Of the vital organs. the stomach.
the liver or the bowels usually. There are dyspep.
tic symptoms, he liver Is troublesome, the skin
grows tasny and unhealthy looking. there are
pains in the right side or through the right shoul-
der blade. The climax 10 often an utter prostrs-
tion Of the physical energies, perhaps q fatal
issue. But n The difhculty Is met in time with
Hosttter's Stomach Bitier. which Is alwAys efec.
tive a. . remedy. and IL should be Iesorted 10 1t an
early slage, there will be no reason TO appreben 4
thOs Injurious subsequent effects upon the system
often en,siled by entirely cured diseases. Far
better Is IL, also, 10 employ this safe remedial
agent In fever and ague, and other ma lsrisl com
plants, than quinine and other potent drugs,
which, even when they do prove ehectual for a
time, ruin the stomach and impair the general
health.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-02-12
The Mickedoos Meet Again.

At the call of the officers Of this So
cial club the members met in full force
at the German hall last evening. and
INDUCED in another m Of their en-
Ioyabls parties. The object of this
was 80 as not to interfere with any of
the numerous parties announced TO
take place the coming week. Their
general routine Of dancing being every
other week. This will be their last
entertainment before Lent. There
were fully sixty people present who
INDUCED 10 the Macy waltz and pleas
ures of the evening until a late hour
this morning, only being interrupted
by a half hour for lunch.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-02-12

The oldest Crow Indians say there
have been but few such winters Ms the
present since they settled 10 this coun-
try, but there was n much worse
about 80 years ago. The snow lay six
feet deep on the level inIPease Bottom,
and the Indians that were congregat-
ed about the old trading posts there
were snow bound for two moons. The
Crows were then wealthy and owned
countless ponies, of which thousands
were smothered in the drifts that win.
tel. -BilliDgs Gazette.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-02-12
During the early part of next week

During the early part Of next week
the Billings dramatic club will pre-
sent the drama o f''The Hidden Hand"
at the Billings opera house. The pro-
CO d. of the entertainment will be
given to the Billings free reading
rooms. After their home performance
the club desire to visit Miles City and
reproduce the play. and through DIR.
A. III. Hersey, n OF the leading men,
bers, the offer is made to donate the
net proceeds of an entertainment here
TO any worthy object of charity or pub
lie good that wi people may designate.
The visit would certainly be a p~ieasur-
able one both for them and US, aud
they will be cordially welcomed.